Is it that you do not know, or that you do not want to know. A voice asked inside him.
"Know what?"
What is not to know? There is no unknown. There can be no unknown.
"And what does that mean? No one call know everything. There must be some unknown things in the world."
"Tentomon?" came Biyomon's voice. "What are you talking about?"
"Oh, just thinking out loud," Tentomon replied. "I've just been thinking?"
"About what?"
"About," he turned away from the computer to face her. "Biyomon, have you ever thought, what are we?"
"Why would I think about that? I'm me. Biyomon. A digimon just like you."
"I guess it's mostly being around Izzy so much," Tentomon sighed. "It's funny, isn't it. I never thought of this before I met Izzy, and now its got a high place on my thought list. I guess that his inquisitive nature is rubbing off."
"But isn't being a digimon good enough of an answer?" Biyomon asked. "And even if that isn't good enough, couldn't we say that we are the partners of the digidestined. I think those are both perfectly good answers."
"Yes, but," Tentomon turned to the computer again. "Remember Izzy's theory on what we are? What this entire world is?"
"We're all just computerized data. Inputted into a computer. Everything around us has been stored into some sort of database."
"Yes, but then we're just thoughts," Tentomon said. "And thoughts are just extensions of the person who thinks them. So then we are who we are because they think we're this way?"
"Why do humans look the way they do?" Biyomon asked. "Sora told me a little about it. She said that their skeletal structure is relatively the same as their parents. Meaning they have two arms and two legs because their predecessors did. So don't we look like we did because of our predecessors and not because of the human?"
"Yes, but in the end wouldn't we still be from the humans? Then why do we act, look, even talk like we were separate?"
"Why does Sora act different than Tai? Matt different than Joe? because of their thoughts. Thoughts is what makes something...something."
"Then why do we think?" Tentomon asked, turning on the computer. "Agumon said that he was scared to fight Tyranomon. How could he feel fear? Was he programmed to? Anger, fear, happy, sad, if these were all programmed into us, then we can't think."
"You cannot program fear," Biyomon replied. "Izzy's computer cannot feel fear, anger, joy, or anything else. It has no feelings, no emotions. It was created to serve as as a holder of data. It fulfils it purpose, as Izzy does continue to use it. Its purpose was built in."
"Yes, but have you ever thought if we are just like this computer? If we were built and programmed to help? If meeting Sora and Izzy and the others wasn't just done to help fulfil our purpose? If we feel joy and anger only to help us work better?"
"Sora told me something," Biyomon said in a surpassingly calm voice. "A human philosopher once said 'I think therefore I am.' I'd be lying to say I'm positive what this means. Anyway, I'm going to sleep."
"I think," Tentomon murmured, rolling this through his head. He closed the computer. "Therefore I am."
